To let my fucking cat take his chances??

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He’s a nice cat and I have no real beef with him generally but he’s learned that he can somehow scale the ivy outside my first floor window and shout at me from 5am.

He doesn’t want anything. He can access the whole downstairs where there are many beds and food in his bowl. If I let him in he doesn’t just want to curl up on my bed, he instead continues shouting and runs downstairs to demand slightly fresher food, whilst waking the younger children.

If I get him in and just hurl him straight out the front door Flintstones style, he just climbs straight back up.

Once he’s up, he’s on a very precarious tiny windowsill. I don’t know how he even does it without falling.

YABU - continue to let the fucker in

YANBU - ignore him, leave him to his own shitty decision-making, and hope he doesn’t fall and just gives up in time

he likes to spend his nights out murdering things. He’d be fuming if I kept him in.

All the more reason not to let him.

If he falls off just don't leave it three weeks before you take him to the vet 👍

My lovely opposite neighbour sent a message just yesterday saying "hun your cat is on an upside windowsill, I think she's stuck up there. She's squawking at people walking past."

Yeah. The window was open but doesn't look like it from below. She just likes to sit there and pretend she's stuck so that people knock on my door to tell me. Daft bint (cat not the neighbour).

Ignore your cat. It'll make bog all difference but you can pretend you're dealing with it. The cat will just do what it wants anyway.

If he is injured and it looks expensive I’ll just smother him with a pillow. Or drive him to an expensive looking house and roll him out.

Vet! Tchah!

You do know that if you ignore him he'll continue to shout. You'll be awake so you may as well.

Cats are top manipulators of the human species 😆

My stupid cat likes to leap from the top of the car onto the porch roof and then onto DS's windowsill and beg to be let in. I don't know why he still does it, because the pitched porch roof tiles are covered in car claw marks where he's launched himself onto it and slid back down again and ended up hanging off the guttering by his front paws (yes that is as hilarioust o watch as it sounds). And also because DS has been at university for a year so it's not like anyone actually lets him in anymore. Oh and he also has a cat flap.

I was going to suggest some kind of cat repellant.

My friend used to regularly get woken up by her cat falling on her face as he walked across the top of her headboard in the night.

Can’t you put something around the base of the ivy so he can’t climb it?

We have similar. He scales the tree just outside the house, jumps onto the porch roof, sits outside the bedroom window and howls.
Worse, he taught other older cats (who should know better) how to do this so that there are now three. They never did this before he arrived. Many annoying habits and demands but not this 😾😾😾
Tries to open the bedroom window at 4am because he wants to go out. Tappity, tappity, tappity, tappity, clunk, repeat. The clunk noise is when he get frustrated and headbutts the window.

Are you me? 😁. I’d do this about cat and other things that annoy me too 😁😁😁.

Let him in, the asshole will remember and take revenge if you don’t. We have two cats, one is a beautiful girl who would never do anything remotely dangerous or asshole like. The second is an out and out asshole who takes pleasure in reigning destruction down around me and if I don’t give in to his every demand he finds a way to endanger himself, so I’m speaking from experience

Well he eventually sloped off somewhere. No idea how but I suppose he’s quite the athlete.
Wouldn’t be surprised if I don’t see him for a week now, but seriously!! 5am! No!

So you have two choices

1. Learn to switch sleep gears so you can get up, let Dcat in, go downstairs and provide food.
2. Go through all 7 stages of grief and then do 1 until the end of days.

A note on auto feeders: I was out slightly later than normal the other night so duly bought and set up auto cat feeder… Came home to find it punted to the centre of the kitchen and open. However, the food was uneaten and her Royal Furriness wouldn’t take a bite until I was there to witness it… WHY ARE THEY LIKE THIS?!

Buy a water sprayer bottle. Set it to produce a jet of water, rather than a mist. Then whenever he does it spray him with it. He won't like it and will soon get the message.

When she feels life isn’t going entirely her way DCat1 has a habit of running out of the cat flap into the back garden, round to the front, and meowing piteously at the front door until someone cracks; then repeating ad nauseum. The neighbours often passive-aggressively knock on the door and say “I’m not sure if you realised your cat is at he front door?” When obviously the whole bloody town knows. Bitch.

Wild animal? He’s a domestic cat. He’s killing wild animals though.

I had indoor-outdoor cats many years ago. They all learned to live inside - and were safer and healthier for it.

Aye but I bet they were miserable as sin. I feel the same about caged birds.

I loved this post. It sounds just like our cat. My husband says cut the ivy.

One of mine would eat it. 😆

So the cat we had before his lordship mentioned above, used to go out the back patio doors, run straight across to my neighbour's (immaculate) garden, go to the toilet, usually facing her living room window, then fly back to the front door. She never went in and out the same door. My neighbour bought one of those water sprayer ornaments...no, I caught her rubbing against that before doing a huge poo next to it, I then noticed she'd bought a cat figure to stick in the ground to deter her, but I saw her chewing on the ears of that with her back teeth. Finally she put some Holly down on the floor where she usually went, I saw the little bugger walking gingerly across it and hovering above it! I felt awful, she was old, (the cat not my neighbour) she must have done it for years but I only realised in lockdown when I was working from home! I did go and see my neighbour to confess and offered to clean the lawn up each time as I was mortified! Luckily she was seeing the funny side of it, apparently she used to eyeball her while concentrating on doing her poo!

Anyway I'm glad he has given up for now, but you know he's just regrouping don't you, the offensive will continue tonight!

cut the ivy

I bloody won’t! It’s my garden! And he’d only find a ladder or learn to levitate.

I am much enjoying this thread though. He is my first cat and I never realised how entertaining/infuriating they were before. He was a feral kitten we ended up with so he’s very wild and wilful. Unless he feels sad face would better suit his needs.

he’d only find a ladder or learn to levitate.

The only solution is to move house!

My much-missed boy used to do this - perch precariously on the sill outside our bedroom, having accessed it via the shed roof and utility roof, and beg to be let in for Reasons. He could and did use the cat flap. He just enjoyed dancer and staring at us piteously. Loved him.

dancer! danger!